As others have noted, today is Forgiveness Sunday, and Lent begins at Vespers tonight.

If I have offended anyone, knowingly or unknowingly, by anything I have written here, please forgive me.

For non-Orthodox who may be curious, there is more on Forgiveness Sunday at Notes from underground: "As we forgive those...". And for Orthodox there is ( Read more... )

Adriaan Vlok, the former apartheid regime's police minister, went to church in Soweto on Sunday and heard that his recent apology was "a miracle" that has had a global impact ( Read more... )

In a comment on another topic ansimov asked me to sign and pass on this petition about Kosovo, urging that it remain a part of Serbia ( Read more... )

Fr Thomas Hopko said the following about tolerance, in a paper read to an Orthodox mission conference ten years ago. I think it's very good and worth repeating:
Tolerance is always in order when it means that we coexist peacefully with people whose ideas and manners differ from our own, even when to do so is to risk the impression that truth is ( Read more... )